The WSDL url http://advertisersapi.doubleclick.net/v1.12/api/dfa-api/campaign?wsdl was used by a customer with the Svcutil.exe tool to generate a proxy class and associated message and data classes, and it worked fine. But when they tried to use the Add Service Reference... (often shortened to "ASR"...

A note directly related to the larger blog project started with the last post, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ralph.squillace/archive/2011/01/03/cloud-data-a-newbie-series-the-issues.aspx . While I have been working on a lot of phone applications, almost all of the work around the net using HTTP web requests...

It's been an interesting couple of years for me -- I've been assigned to two different projects that have failed to find their way to RTM as originally conceived -- which cut my blog writing down a bit. It happens; I've been working most recently on some internal tools and demos designed to make use...

This past month I've been doing some work on the AppFabric Service Bus . It's hard to get a grip on the "feature" associated with this technology at first glance, but I'll take my first shot right here: "The Windows Azure platform Service Bus enables you to build Web services and clients that can traverse...